Predictions Contest Thread

[takigan]

This topic is for discussing the logistics of the Predictions Contest/Game only!

 

THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR POSTING PREDICTIONS FOR A PARTICULAR CONTEST!

 

Please refer to the appropriate contest thread and post your predictions there (or make one of it doesn't already exist). This is only for posting stuff concerning the game itself: the rankings, rules, game strategies, proceedings, questions, concerns etc.

 

Participants: When submitting events, be sure to check the Contest's web page to make sure their judging criteria meets the Prelims--Finals format of our contest/game. Also, please check your spelling and please attach appropriate city prefixes to the FULL NAME of the School ("Austin James Bowie" instead of just "Bowie"....there's more than 1 Bowie out there).

 

Moderators: Please don't just approve submitted events blindly. Double check with the contests' websites to make sure all of the participating bands are there and correctly entered, make sure the number of finalists are correct and the appropriate captions are represented. If you're unsure, just leave it and let me be the final word. Once we approve an event, Alex is the only one who can cancel and remove it, so make sure it's legit.

 

The winner with the most points at the end of the season will receive a prize (Most likely an official TxBands.com T-shirt, but exceptions may be made by the staff if we deem such).

 

I am the official Predictions Moderator. I will usually be competing alongside the rest of you just for fun, but if I should happen to win I am automatically disqualified from winning the prize. The prize will then go to the number 2 winner. In the event of a tie for winner there will be a tiebreaker, the nature of said tiebreaker will be decided by Alex (Clarinot) should the predicament arise.

 

 

PREDICTIONS CONTEST ERRATA:

 

1. If Band A decides to enter a contest last minute after everyone has submitted predictions for the event and Band A also makes finals and/or wins a caption, the ranking and captions that Band A acquires will be considered "Dead Slots" and no one will receive points for those particular slots.

 

2. If a particular band is listed in the Event as attending, but the band does not attend, predictions will still carry on as normal....even if everyone had them as their first place band. Sorry, bummer I know, there's just no better way to handle it. This is why we try to wait until as close to contest as is reasonable to minimize the number of bands that do this.

 

3. Some contests split the Music caption into 2 sub-captions: High Brass & High Woodwinds (or something similar). For these contests if Band A wins both sub-captions they will be considered to have won the Music Caption by default. If Band A wins Brass and Band B wins Woodwinds, the Music Caption will be considered to be won by the band that ranked higher in Finals. If neither band made finals (unlikely, but you never know), Prelims results will be used. Other anomalies will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

 

4. The Staff reserves the right to discard or void an event for whatever reason. Such reason will very likely be mentioned in this thread, but we also reserve the right to not do that either for whatever reason .

 

Additional Errata will be added here as needed and will be applied to the system on a case-by-case basis.

 

HAPPY PREDICTING!